Stone flake

Collection type: Object
Description: Stone flake
Long description: Dark brownish grey, pointed flint flake with mid yellowish grey patina forming. Cortex present on c.5% of the distal portion of the dorsal surface. [CG [Excav. PR] 23/07/2013]
Geographical reference: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; England Greater London London Borough of Ealing W3 Acton
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers; PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
Date / Period: Archaeological period: Palaeolithic
Date collected: 1870 July 15
Acquisition information: Donated: 1884 Exchanged: 1950
Materials and processes: Material Stone, Process Flaked
Dimensions: Thick: max 12 mm, Width: max 44 mm, Length: max 73 mm, Weight 38 g
Object numbers: Accession number: 1884.122.378 PR Cat other PR nos: 897 PR Cat other PR nos: 1508
Research and responses: Note that nine objects have been matched to the blue entry although only 8 are mentioned. Note that the four figure number is not given in the accession book. Note that Bowden gives the dates for Pitt Rivers' obtaining objects from the Thames Gravel Terraces around Acton as January to June 1869 [Bowden, 1991: 73]. However, there are several objects from Acton dated July 1869 as well. There are also objects dated 1870 and 1871. [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]
A "worked flake" from Acton, High Terrace Gravels was among the 90 items sent to the Australian Museum in 1950 according to the list in accession book XIII, p.155. There are several entries that match this description and it is not possible to narrow this down further. Although the exchanged item was noted as having the collection number 877, only a pottery entry matches this. See [1950.2.3 - 93] for items received in exchange. [CF 23/6/2000]

Search terms: Tool, Flake